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====== Galilean Relativity and the Lorentz Contraction ====== [[http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/timmaudlin.html|Tim Maudlin]] \\ <fs 75%> //Department of Philosophy, New York University//</fs> <blockquote> It is often said that one of the fundamental principles of both classical physics and Relativity is Galilean relativity or “the equivalence of all inertial frames”. I will discuss the precise phenomenon that Galileo remarked in On The Two Chief World Systems, and the relation of that phenomenon to both coordinate transformations and to symmetries of space-time. This yields two different ways to address the question of whether the Lorentz contraction in Relativity is a physical effect. </blockquote> {{url>http://www.pmfst.hr/~sokolic/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=presentation_split_maudlin.pdf 650px}} ---- {{wp>Tim_Maudlin}} [{{http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/props/IO/21002/42/maudlin.jpg|Tim Maudlin}}] {{amazon>en:0198701306 noprice =0}} {{amazon>en:0199575371 noprice =0}} {{amazon>en:0691143099 noprice =0}} {{amazon>en:1444331272 noprice =0}}